Sex a 'political issue' at the Jaipur literature festival

Sarah Waters, Nicholson Baker, Deepti Kapoor and Hanif Kureishi discuss contemporary writers’ struggles with sex, and radical Islam’s obsession with pleasure

The distortion of sex, particularly in the Muslim world, is “a political issue” which is one of the most important issues facing writers today, Hanif Kureishi told a packed audience at the Jaipur literature festival on Friday.

Speaking alongside novelists Nicholson Baker, Sarah Waters and Deepti Kapoor in a session titled “Basic instinct”, he argued radical Islam thinks about pleasure “all the time ... but it thinks about it from a negative perspective”.

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